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Disney ruined this show's airing!

posted 7 years ago by Manna-Fest
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One thing I absolutely HATE about Disney channel is that they can never air a show right. A gorgeous show like this deserved to be displayed in it's intended order and right. This show's first season was filmed in 2002 and completed before it aired. Why wasn't it aired in the Fall of 2002? This made so sense given they had a Christmas episode that was meant to air in December 2002. Instead, they decided to air it in January 2003 and the Christmas episode didn't air until the following year and by this time, they were already airing Season 2! How do you air the next season before finishing up the current one? This caused quite the continuity errors as the last episode of Season 1 aired in March 2004 and introduced Tanya's mother, who was mentioned early on Season 2 when Raven and Chelsea made that potion that turned them into cows and Raven brought her up "Remember my Aunt Viv"? Well to the audience this wouldn't make sense given we wouldn't have met her yet as her episode didn't even air!

Then when they air Season 3, they for some reason used that opening for Season 2, so now Seasons 2-3 have the same opening. Why? What was wrong with the original Season 2 opening? They also had this season air over a two year period, I usually hate this. A season shouldn't expand two years when it's set in just one. Also episodes aired out of order as "Vision Impossible" came before the "Four Aces" one and the "Vision Impossible" episode shows clips from "Four Aces". Then, Season 4 started out in order, but then we have episodes depicting Raven's first meeting with Donna Cabonna airing before the episode where she and Cory start school and in the Donna Cabonna debut episode she was already in school by then. That was to come after the school debut episode. Ughh. And then it really took the cake when they had "CORY IN THE HOUSE" air before they even aired the last couple of episodes of this show and held out the last episode for almost a year! Ridiculous.

So yeah, Disney screwed this show up completely and should have been aired right. Hopefully the new spinoff gets better treatment.

[–] seanryan-48455 7 years ago

Ugh, I know. I'm still bitter about this.

[–] Purplecover101 7 years ago

They did a similar thing in Lizzie McGuire.

They aired the "Rumors" episode before the pilot.

In season 2, the first episode should've been, "Just Like Lizzie" but instead they started out with "first kiss". The last episode should've been the one where Lizzie was nervous about high school but instead, the show ended with the episode where Lizzie,Miranda, and Gordo went to see that kiddie show live.